WEBVTT 00:00:00.280 --> 00:00:08.599 today I'll be doing a quick unboxing of the Corsair cooling air series A50 so 00:00:05.879 --> 00:00:14.360 this is a performance CPU Cooler not to be confused with what I have over here 00:00:11.880 --> 00:00:21.240 which is the a70 which is classified as a high 00:00:18.880 --> 00:00:25.160 performance CPU Cooler so this is performance this is high performance 00:00:23.320 --> 00:00:29.279 there are a couple of key differences so what I'll probably end up doing is uh 00:00:27.400 --> 00:00:33.440 taking them both out to do a quick comparison for for you they both feature 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:43.480 a 2-year warranty as well as compatibility with LGA 775 1156 1366 00:00:38.800 --> 00:00:46.840 core core am3 am2 and 00:00:43.480 --> 00:00:48.680 am3 as well as compatibility with 120 mm 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:51.920 fans Corsair's 120 mil fans are generally pretty good quality so I'd 00:00:50.320 --> 00:00:58.320 expect this one to be much more of the same you can either select 1600 or 2,000 00:00:54.680 --> 00:01:00.559 RPM on the fan and here we 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:04.040 have a little performance perance graph compared to your stock cooler I can't 00:01:02.640 --> 00:01:09.520 help but wonder what stock cooler they were using oh here we go core i7 965 00:01:06.880 --> 00:01:14.520 processor running at stock 3.2 GHz so um actually the LGA 00:01:11.680 --> 00:01:17.880 1366 cooler that comes with the 965 is a pretty decent cooler so if it 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:23.960 outperforms that one by a significant margin you can rest assured it will 00:01:19.520 --> 00:01:26.240 outperform your 1156 775 or AMD stock 00:01:23.960 --> 00:01:31.920 cooler so let's take the packaging off just like this look at that I didn't 00:01:29.079 --> 00:01:31.920 need a knife at all 00:01:35.280 --> 00:01:39.799 I still zoomed in oh yeah that's why you can't see what I'm doing here we go a 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:46.520 much better so the box is actually similar in 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:50.520 size to the a70 but a little bit shorter 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:54.439 okay so you got about H about 2 to 3 cm 00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:56.479 there in terms of extra shortness or 00:01:54.439 --> 00:02:01.600 less length if you prefer they're both the same sideways Dimensions so it's not 00:01:59.039 --> 00:02:06.960 really bigger in that regard go ahead and open up the top here have a look at 00:02:04.399 --> 00:02:10.039 what's inside with the a70 I tried to guess what was inside all the boxes this 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:15.120 time hopefully I'll be a little bit more accurate okay I'm going to guess that in 00:02:11.840 --> 00:02:18.200 here is 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:20.760 accessories of some 00:02:18.200 --> 00:02:28.400 sort oh boy sure wish I could get this stuff out of here that would there we go 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:32.440 all right so Inside the Box we will 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:34.080 find something to get the box out of the 00:02:32.440 --> 00:02:40.120 light we will find all of the accessories so we have a 120 mm fan 00:02:36.760 --> 00:02:42.000 which comes with their uh shroud SL clip 00:02:40.120 --> 00:02:47.040 that I actually really like it makes fan mounting a breeze and it's also got nice 00:02:44.720 --> 00:02:53.200 anti vibration rubber grommets um mounting the fan to the frame we've also 00:02:50.200 --> 00:02:56.000 got the am2 am3 hold 00:02:53.200 --> 00:03:02.400 down thermal compound thumb screws rubber washers and a fan speed adapter 00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:07.120 fan speed well fan noise reduction adapter so that'll turn your fan speed 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:11.239 down presumably to, 1600 RPM here's a Corsair Solutions guide outlining all of 00:03:09.080 --> 00:03:15.799 their different solutions including memory Solutions cooling solutions power 00:03:13.280 --> 00:03:19.640 chassis USB and Storage Solutions it's gotten to the point where uh as per 00:03:17.879 --> 00:03:24.159 their dream machine campaign you can actually almost build a PC entirely out 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:28.040 of Corsair parts so here's their back plate for Intel here's a little plastic 00:03:26.000 --> 00:03:31.280 piece to keep the uh motherboard components on the back from being 00:03:29.200 --> 00:03:37.159 shorted out you can adjust these clips here to go from 775 to 1156 to 1366 00:03:35.480 --> 00:03:41.560 quite easily and then there's a hold down for the top side along with some 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:45.239 screws perfect so that's all of our mounting accessories as well as our fan 00:03:43.920 --> 00:03:51.280 accessories I'm going to hold on to the fan for now put that in there yeah there we go 00:03:49.480 --> 00:03:55.000 hold onto the fan and let's have a look at the cooler itself so it comes packed 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:59.879 in foam just like that it comes with a 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:04.280 little uh quick start guide which which I guess shows you how to install it on 00:04:02.760 --> 00:04:12.680 the socket of your choice that's too much thermal compound I would probably put on about half of that but uh A+ for 00:04:09.760 --> 00:04:16.560 effort of course there I mean they're not wrong the only disadvantage is that 00:04:15.079 --> 00:04:20.519 you're going to get some thermal goop around the edges of your CPU and like 00:04:18.560 --> 00:04:24.759 it's kind of it's kind of hard to clean off of there it won't damage anything 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:30.320 but it's just a pain when you're trying to clean off the CPU to I don't know put 00:04:27.880 --> 00:04:33.800 it back in a box or or whatever it is you need to do do not return this 00:04:31.880 --> 00:04:39.600 product to the store corser wants to cover all of the technical support 00:04:35.520 --> 00:04:41.440 customer service Etc themselves don't 00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:46.440 eat this and then we have the cooler so it's 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:50.560 quite a bit smaller than the a70 right off the bat you've got the same black 00:04:48.440 --> 00:04:54.080 top that I really liked on the a70 so you've got three heat pipes coming up 00:04:52.160 --> 00:04:58.840 through it and then instead of seeing a standard silver or chromed top you've 00:04:56.520 --> 00:05:03.360 got a nice black one which will go really well with the black interior and 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:06.960 of course their 800d the fins are quite tightly spaced but as long as the fan 00:05:05.280 --> 00:05:10.479 has reasonably good static pressure which it better because it's I believe 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:15.039 the same one that they're using on the H50 then you should get fairly good 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:20.600 performance out of it that way the fan Clips on that easily that's how hard it 00:05:17.440 --> 00:05:22.759 is so you just clip it on and then you 00:05:20.600 --> 00:05:27.000 can pull it off and clip it on and pull it off but it is secure enough that it's 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:32.400 not just going to fall off so here if I take the heat sink and shake it around 00:05:29.240 --> 00:05:34.800 like if it was being shipped on a truck 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:38.520 there it doesn't fall off excellent all right I was hoping it wouldn't fall off 00:05:36.800 --> 00:05:43.000 then we've got the bottom of the heat sink so this is where we see it is a 00:05:40.039 --> 00:05:50.039 heat pipe direct touch heat sink so that oh that was bad that means that it will 00:05:46.080 --> 00:05:52.039 survive a fall from approximately 6 in 00:05:50.039 --> 00:05:57.199 above the table and it will not be damaged because it is engineered like 00:05:54.639 --> 00:06:01.000 that okay so I'm just distracting you right now while I pull the a70 out of 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:03.600 its box so that I can do a quick comparison against its little brother 00:06:02.759 --> 00:06:06.880 the A50 here we 00:06:07.440 --> 00:06:13.479 are all right it looks a lot bigger but it's not actually that much bigger it's 00:06:11.880 --> 00:06:16.639 just because of the additional bulk from the fans I mean it's a little bit bigger 00:06:15.039 --> 00:06:20.479 but anyway let's finish off with the A50 here so I'll do the obligatory finger 00:06:18.400 --> 00:06:28.880 shot it's not all that shiny but it does look quite flat although my uh my 00:06:25.800 --> 00:06:30.880 unmeasured appearance om meter is not 00:06:28.880 --> 00:06:34.120 going to give us too good an indication of that but I would expect it to be 00:06:32.440 --> 00:06:37.800 reasonably well manufactured I mean that is one of the things that is tough about 00:06:35.759 --> 00:06:42.479 heat pipe direct touch though is that when you're manufacturing you do have to 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:46.560 make sure that it is aligned completely precisely all of the heat pipes and that 00:06:44.599 --> 00:06:50.479 they are aligned precisely with the base because what you do is you assemble the 00:06:48.520 --> 00:06:53.880 whole thing mush it all together and then you have to actually flatten the 00:06:52.199 --> 00:06:58.800 whole thing as a whole so if you go too far you'll go inside the heat pipes heat 00:06:56.240 --> 00:07:03.520 pipes are not solid they are Hollow and usually full of some kind of a a gas SL 00:07:01.800 --> 00:07:07.240 liquid cuz that's what allows it to transfer heat so quickly so if you go 00:07:05.639 --> 00:07:10.440 too far you puncture a heat pipe rendering the whole thing useless and if 00:07:09.120 --> 00:07:14.960 you don't go far enough then you're going to lose some of the efficiency of 00:07:12.440 --> 00:07:18.680 actually having the heat sink directly on top of the heat spreader of the 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:25.479 CPU oh look oh there's cor our logos on 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:29.160 uh on on the bottom too there's a nice Finishing Touch for you you'll never see 00:07:27.039 --> 00:07:32.840 it in all likelihood but it's there you'll it's there and that'll make you 00:07:30.599 --> 00:07:36.360 feel better okay so here we are we can compare the two heat sinks against each 00:07:34.319 --> 00:07:40.240 other so the first thing you'll notice in terms of difference is that the a70 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:43.680 looks much bigger because of the big fan I already mentioned that the next thing 00:07:41.800 --> 00:07:49.479 you'll notice is that it has more heat pipes so it has 33% more heat pipes and 00:07:47.280 --> 00:07:53.879 in theory 33% more performance although it probably doesn't quite work out that 00:07:51.039 --> 00:07:57.360 way let's just um strip the fans off them so you can see just how much 00:07:55.199 --> 00:08:01.520 thicker it is I can also tell already that it has quite a bit more surface 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:07.000 area in terms of fins too because what they've done with the uh with the A50 is 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:11.599 they've actually gone a little bit okay yeah you can see it has a slightly 00:08:08.360 --> 00:08:14.039 different shape to it 00:08:11.599 --> 00:08:18.360 so no you can't really see that okay I guess the only difference here is that 00:08:16.120 --> 00:08:21.840 the A50 only has the one side that you can clip the fan to that's kind of 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:26.000 interesting so rather than being shaped the same on both sides like the a70 00:08:23.840 --> 00:08:31.159 because the a70 is designed to have a fan clip to either side you can see clip 00:08:28.159 --> 00:08:33.919 Marks here here here and here the A50 00:08:31.159 --> 00:08:38.240 can only accept a fan on the one side this side is actually flat that's why it 00:08:35.760 --> 00:08:41.880 looked like there was actually less thin material on this side of the heat pipes 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:46.040 to me but it's not actually the case although it is quite a bit thinner so 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:50.720 you know what I'm it's hard to say how much performance difference you'd see 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:55.120 but um maybe I'll have to actually test these and find out just how well they do 00:08:53.000 --> 00:09:01.440 maybe I'll test them against the uh Co gauge Arrow here which is this enormous 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:01.440 monstrosity thing it's um 00:09:01.959 --> 00:09:07.640 yeah okay well enough speculation they both use nice fat 8mm heat pipes so 00:09:05.920 --> 00:09:10.800 that's a really good thing to see so even though this one only is a three 00:09:09.399 --> 00:09:15.000 heat pipe cooler it's going to do quite a bit better than a uh heat pipe cooler 00:09:12.839 --> 00:09:20.040 that uses only 6 mm heat pipes thank you for checking out my unboxing of the 00:09:16.480 --> 00:09:21.720 Corsair A50 CPU heat sink and I hope you 00:09:20.040 --> 00:09:27.560 enjoyed it don't forget to subscribe both to Linus Tech tips as well as NCC 00:09:24.880 --> 00:09:30.440 my other official NC Channel and thank you for watching